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The A-share market is collapsing again, like many times before. It takes numerous government policies and "expert" opinions to entice ignorant retail investors into the market but just a few days to send them packing. As greed has the upper hand in Chinese society, the same story repeats itself time and again.

Mainland scientists hope a new "suicide germ" will allay fears of dangerous mutations from genetically engineered micro-organisms (GEMs) released into the environment.

With a rise in US savings putting unbearable pressure on China's low consumption rate, leading to the risk of a collapse in China's ability to export its overcapacity, the question about why Chinese households save so much of their income has become more important than ever.

Everyone seems to know the answer. Chinese households save, many insist, because the Confucian culture encourages saving for the future. Saving is deeply and culturally imbedded in the Chinese psyche.

Global warming is changing the Earth's climate so fast that influential scientists fear it is already outrunning our ability to prevent the planet from overheating.

John Holdren, US President Barack Obama's chief scientific adviser, is only the latest to suggest radical geo-engineering measures may have to be considered to keep the Earth habitable.

"It's got to be looked at. We don't have the luxury of taking any approach off the table," he said. He recently compared the crisis with being "in a car with bad brakes driving towards a cliff in the fog".

June 2 (Bloomberg) -- Wood is becoming a hot commodity in a new low-carbon world.

Power companies are burning more trees because the renewable fuel can be cheaper than coal and ignited without needing permits to release carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.